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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>ISIS After the American Strike</strong> - For an indication of the terrorist group’s future, look to its recent past. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/isis-after-the-american-strike">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How a City Close to the Ukraine-Russia Border Has Been Shaped by War</strong> - In Kharkiv, a Ukrainian national identity has been fortified by Russian incursions and threats. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-a-city-close-to-the-ukraine-russia-border-has-been-shaped-by-war">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Pro-Trump Case for Rejecting the Big Lie</strong> - Weston Wamp, a young conservative from Tennessee, is on a mission to convince others on the right that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pro-trump-case-for-rejecting-the-big-lie">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Afterlife of a Las Vegas Spectacular</strong> - Nearly two years after “Le Rêve” went dark, cast members are still grappling with what it means to be a performer without a show. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/the-afterlife-of-a-las-vegas-spectacular">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>When Hip-Hop Was Young</strong> - Sue Kwon photographed the artists whose music would go on to change the world. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/when-hip-hop-was-young">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Liz Cheney’s censure underscores Republican loyalties to Trump</strong> -
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Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger listen as the House select committee tasked with investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol meets on Capitol Hill on October 19, 2021. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP
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GOP critiques of the committee investigating the January 6 insurrection serve to further normalize the attack.
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On Friday, the Republican National Committee censured Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) for their participation in a <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/7/27/22596347/january-6-committee-hearing-gonell-fanone-hodges-dull">congressional committee</a> investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot — a move that underscores just how closely the GOP continues to align itself with former President Donald Trump and his lies about the 2020 election.
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The resolution condemns Cheney and Kinzinger for their involvement in the January 6 select committee in the House, which is dedicated to investigating the circumstances and causes of the insurrection. Though it doesn’t formally expel either member from the party, it all but does so in practice.
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The <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/rnc-censure-resolution/58226d40412e4f18/full.pdf">resolution</a>, which was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/us/politics/republicans-jan-6-cheney-censure.html">obtained by the New York Times</a>, states that the RNC would “immediately cease any and all support of them as members of the Republican Party for their behavior which has been destructive to the institution of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Republican Party and our republic, and is inconsistent with the position of the Conference.”
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It describes their work on the January 6 committee as aiding “Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse,” seemingly downplaying the violence, killing, and destruction that took place at the Capitol and normalizing it. <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1489693461452361748">RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel</a> released a subsequent statement noting that the committee was focusing on “legitimate political discourse that had nothing to do with violence at the Capitol,” an apparent attempt to clarify the language from the resolution.
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An RNC subcommittee approved the resolution on Thursday, and a majority of the RNC’s 168 members did the same in a voice vote on Friday.
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Harmeet Dhillon, one of the resolution’s sponsors, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/03/gop-rebuke-cheney-kinzinger-00005547">told Politico</a> the resolution is aimed at calling out Cheney and Kinzinger for their decision to “defy party leadership,” and not for their repeated criticism of Trump.
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But it’s hard to interpret the resolution as anything other than a rebuke of Cheney and Kinzinger’s unwillingness to stay silent on Trump, given how outspoken both have been regarding the president’s role in spreading lies about the election that fueled the events of January 6. Republicans have been upset, too, about Cheney and Kinzinger’s participation in a committee that’s focused on the role GOP lawmakers played in amplifying false claims about the election.<strong> </strong>
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Cheney and Kinzinger are the only Republicans on the January 6 committee. Originally, the House Homeland Security Committee hoped to create a fully bipartisan committee, but this plan was derailed by <a href="https://www.vox.com/22588475/kevin-mccarthy-
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january-6-committee-banks-jordan">Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy</a>. Republicans were left with just two members on the committee ultimately created by Pelosi after McCarthy nominated lawmakers who voted to overturn legitimate election results as committee members. Pelosi invited Cheney and Kinzinger — who are among the House’s most conservative lawmakers — in part because they were among the 10 House Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment in the wake of the insurrection.
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Following the announcement of the RNC subcommittee’s censure vote, both lawmakers put out statements standing by their participation in the January 6 committee, and criticizing the party for moving forward with this resolution.
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“I do not recognize those in my party who have abandoned the Constitution to embrace Donald Trump,” Cheney wrote in a statement. “History will be their judge.”
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“Rather than focus their efforts on how to help the American people, my fellow Republicans have chosen to censure two lifelong members of their Party for simply upholding their oaths of office,” Kinzinger said.
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I’m a constitutional conservative and I do not recognize those in my party who have abandoned the Constitution to embrace Donald Trump. History will be their judge. I will never stop fighting for our constitutional republic. No matter what. (2/2) <a href="https://t.co/HtgFzrCipd">https://t.co/HtgFzrCipd</a>
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— Liz Cheney (<span class="citation" data-cites="Liz_Cheney">@Liz_Cheney</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1489410423526985729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2022</a>
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My statement on the RNC censure. I am now even more committed to fighting conspiracies and lies: <a href="https://t.co/NzKK2s2kkC">pic.twitter.com/NzKK2s2kkC</a>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">— Adam Kinzinger (<span class="citation" data-cites="AdamKinzinger">@AdamKinzinger</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamKinzinger/status/1489426277933195265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2022</a></p>
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This is far from the first time Cheney and Kinzinger have faced GOP blowback for how directly they’ve been willing to confront Trump’s lies about the 2020 election results. Previously, House Republicans <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/5/5/22419504/liz-cheney-trump-big-lie">removed Cheney from leadership</a> for her criticism of Trump, and a GOP organization in Illinois has censured Kinzinger for similar reasons. Cheney also faces a primary challenge from Trump-backed attorney Harriet Hageman for her Wyoming House seat, while Kinzinger has opted not to run for reelection.
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The censure, while a rare move, won’t affect Cheney’s or Kinzinger’s current roles in the House. A prior version of the resolution could have had more of an impact: It urged House Republican leadership to kick both members out of the conference. That would have put McCarthy in the difficult position of deciding whether to remove both members, something the House Freedom Caucus has pushed for before, too.<strong> </strong>
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The final version simply criticizes their actions. Ultimately, the censure serves mainly to reaffirm the message that many Republicans aren’t interested in confronting Trump about his role in contesting the election and stoking the January 6 insurrection. If anything, many intend to give their full support to what he says, no matter how dangerous or untrue.
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The censure is emblematic of Trump’s influence on the Republican Party
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The passage of the resolution is indicative of how many Republicans continue to back Trump and his views.
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In fact, the resolution specifically mentions Trump, rebuking Cheney and Kinzinger for working on the committee alongside Democrats, arguing that they “support Democrat efforts to destroy President Trump more than they support winning back a Republican majority in 2022.”
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Based on the success of Friday’s vote, most in the RNC appear to share this view. But there is a small group of moderate Republicans who used the vote to make it clear they disagree with the party’s unwillingness to take on Trump and call out the severity of the January 6 insurrection.
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Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) were among those who questioned why Republicans were pursuing this censure. <a href="https://twitter.com/MichaelSteele/status/1489456181164789762">Former RNC party chair Michael Steele</a> decried the censure as a “pathetic act of cowardice.” And current RNC member Bill Palatucci said the censure was a “<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/592788-rnc-committee-advances-resolution-
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“Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience, who seek truth in the face of vitriol,” Romney wrote in a Twitter post.
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Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience, who seek truth in the face of vitriol. Honor attaches to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for seeking truth even when doing so comes at great personal cost.
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— Mitt Romney (<span class="citation" data-cites="MittRomney">@MittRomney</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1489611374930141184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2022</a>
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The RNC is censuring Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger because they are trying to find out what happened on January 6th - HUH?
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">— U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (<span class="citation" data-cites="SenBillCassidy">@SenBillCassidy</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenBillCassidy/status/1489448776959991815?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2022</a></p>
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Loyalty to Trump is set to play a role in the midterms
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The censure also foreshadows the role that loyalty to Trump is likely to play in the upcoming midterm elections.
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Cheney is among the Republican incumbents facing a primary challenge due to their opposition to Trump. The RNC this week also ratified a rule that enables it and the Wyoming Republican Party to financially support Hageman, the candidate challenging Cheney. Other Trump critics including Reps. Tom Rice (R-SC), Fred Upton (R-MI), and Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) are set to face Trump-backed primary challengers because of their vote to impeach him in January 2021. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/us/politics/republicans-impeach-trump-primary-fund-raising.html">As the New York Times reports</a>, the incumbent candidates have so far been able to out-raise their opponents.
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Trump’s endorsement<strong> </strong>could play a significant role in crowded primaries for open Senate seats in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and North Carolina. In the past, loyalty to Trump has been a factor in a number of House and Senate primary races, and many — though not all — of his endorsed candidates have won. In 2020, Trump’s backing appeared to help former football coach Tommy Tuberville beat former Sen. Jeff Sessions in an Alabama Senate primary, and buoyed House candidates like Lisa Scheller in Pennsylvania.
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In a handful of races, however, his endorsement hasn’t been enough to secure victory. In Texas, Susan Wright lost a special election runoff despite having the former president’s backing, and in a North Carolina House district, Lynda Bennett lost a Republican primary.
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That hasn’t stopped candidates from vying for Trump’s endorsement. That’s because, particularly in races in which the incumbent has a cash advantage, Trump’s backing is seen as a powerful way to boost one’s fundraising and legitimacy. And as Friday’s censure proves, it is also a way to signify one’s status as a “true Republican.”
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Cheney and Kinzinger’s censure, ultimately, is indicative of how much the Republican Party continues to value allegiance to Trump, sending a signal to candidates and voters ahead of the midterms.
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Cars are computers now, but the government hasn’t caught up.
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Tesla announced two massive recalls this week related to issues with its vehicles’ software. One of the recalls ordered Tesla to roll back a self-driving feature that caused the company’s cars to break the law. While Elon Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1488615123946246151">said</a> “there were no safety issues,” federal regulators disagree. But it’s also increasingly clear that government pressure is unlikely to change Tesla’s brazen approach.
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speeding">potentially dangerous software</a>. This trend is especially concerning because the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the agency that<strong> </strong>will oversee the recalls, can only <a href="https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/understanding_nhtsas_current_regulatory_tools-tag.pdf">take action</a> after the Tesla software has been <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/4/9670744/tesla-self-driving-
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autonomous-cars-regulation-oversight">released to drivers</a>. Tesla typically pushes these updates to its vehicles when they’re connected to the internet, so they don’t come at <a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-
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recall-2022-fsd-stock-price-51643722437">a significant cost to the company</a>. That’s left Tesla free to release and test new features with drivers on the road — until the government catches up and intervenes, or Tesla identifies issues on its own.
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Tesla’s <a href="https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCLRPT-22V037-4462.PDF">first recall this week</a> involved a feature that enabled users to program their Teslas to slow down but not completely stop at all-way intersections with stop signs, under very specific conditions. The company first introduced the so-called “rolling stop” feature back in October 2020 as part of an update to its Full Self-Driving beta software. This <a href="https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot">advanced version</a> of Tesla’s Autopilot driver-assistance technology is only available to a limited number of Tesla owners who pay <a href="https://electrek.co/2022/01/18/tesla-increases-
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full-self-driving-package-price-but-not-monthly-subscription-service/">$12,000</a> for the upgrade and <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22425169/autonomous-features-cars-elon-musk-autopilot">is famously</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-fsd-beta-full-self-driving-autopilot-software-
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controversy-2021-11">controversial</a>. Despite the name, the Full Self-Driving software doesn’t actually turn Teslas into fully autonomous vehicles, but it does give drivers access to semi-autonomous features. The recent recall of the rolling stop feature affected all 53,822 Teslas that had upgraded to Full Self-Driving.
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It’s unclear exactly how dangerous Tesla’s “rolling stop” feature was in practice. No warranty claims or injuries were reported to Tesla, and the system only worked if the car was driving at very slow speeds. Elon Musk claims that speed was <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1488615123946246151">2 miles per hour</a>, while official NHTSA notes say it was <a href="https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCLRPT-22V037-4462.PDF">5.6 miles per hour</a>. Regardless, rolling through stop signs is <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/tesla-recall-full-driving-software-runs-stop-
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signs-82596066">illegal</a> in most places, no matter how slow you’re going. As NHTSA <a href="https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCAK-22V037-9109.pdf">noted</a> in a letter to Tesla, “Failing to stop at a stop sign can increase the risk of a crash.” Tesla has now released a software update to address the recall.
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Tesla’s <a href="https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCLRPT-22V045-3599.PDF">second recall</a> came on Thursday after NHTSA said that more than 817,000 Teslas could have a faulty seat belt feature. The agency said that these vehicles, in certain cases, wouldn’t produce an audible chime when people forget to put on their seat belts, a problem that Tesla <a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defects/tesla-sends-software-update-to-fix-seat-
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belt-chime-recall-a9607462358/">says</a> it will, again, fix with a software update.
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These are just the two most recent Tesla safety- related software updates. The automaker has initiated nine recalls <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-03/tesla-agrees-to-fix-seat-belt-chime-malfunction-
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on-817-000-cars?sref=Wg6QzS2e">within the past three months</a>, and federal safety regulators opening investigations into the company now feel like this is a regular occurrence. At the same time, some of the problems that the software updates are meant to address seem to be ongoing or, in some cases, worsening.
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braking-a5626328806/">issued a recall</a> — and a software update — following reports last fall that vehicles using Autopilot would brake without warning after their computers detected hazards that didn’t actually exist. But this “phantom braking” issue actually appeared to get worse in the months following the recall, possibly because Tesla decided to stop using radar-based sensors, in favor of cameras, on some vehicle models, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/02/tesla-phantom-braking/">a recent report from the Washington Post</a>. Federal regulators are again consulting the company about how to address the problem.
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Yet Tesla shows no sign of stopping. Again, car recalls don’t work the way they once did. Car owners used to take their recalled vehicles to a dealer or auto shop for a repair, or they would get a replacement or a refund. But in recent years, automakers have had the option of fixing some flaws with an over-the- air software update, just like Tesla has done with all of the aforementioned recalls. Because these recalls are akin to releasing an app update, they’re easier and faster for car owners to address. But they’re also <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-stock-shrugs-off-second-over-the-air-recall-for-auto-maker-this-
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week-11643907640">relatively cheap</a> for automakers to execute. So some might argue that, if recalls simply lead to software updates, they’re little more than a slap on the wrist from regulators.
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It looks as though Tesla is also using software updates to preempt potential recalls, too. This past <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/business/tesla-video-game-driving.html">summer</a>, the company released a feature called <a href="https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/nhtsa-tesla-passenger-play-disabled-investigation/">Passenger Play</a> that let people play video games on Teslas’ touchscreens while the vehicles were in motion. But after NHTSA announced <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/business/tesla-video-games.html">an investigation into the feature</a>, Tesla issued a software update in December to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/23/tesla-disables-
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passenger-play-video-games-while-vehicle-is-moving.html">disable</a> Passenger Play while the car is in motion. Last August, the agency similarly <a href="https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a37320725/nhtsa-investigating-tesla-autopilot-
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crashes-fatalities/">announced a formal investigation</a> into 11 crashes involving Tesla vehicles with Autopilot or Traffic-Aware Cruise Control engaged that hit stopped emergency vehicles with their lights flashing, and then Tesla pushed <a href="https://electrek.co/2021/09/22/tesla-autopilot-can-detects-slows-down-emergency-vehicles-lights-
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night/">a related software update</a> a few weeks later. That prompted NHTSA to ask the company in October why it <a href="https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2021/INIM-PE21020-85573P.pdf">didn’t file a formal recall notice</a>, implying that Tesla may have used the update as a “<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/us-asks-tesla-recall-
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Other than formal recalls, regulators <a href="https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/understanding_nhtsas_current_regulatory_tools-tag.pdf">don’t currently have many other tools</a> at their disposal.<strong> </strong>NHTSA could update its <a href="https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/fmvss">Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards</a>, but that’s a <a href="https://www.theverge.com/22869190/pete-buttigieg-self-driving-cars-electric-tesla-decoder">yearslong process</a>, a fact that might help explain why regulations haven’t kept pace with new car technologies. The National Transportation Safety Board can also focus on car safety, but the agency is mostly limited to conducting <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/documents/whatisntsb0091710.pdf">investigations into crashes</a> and making recommendations. While states are <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/california-dmv-
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misleading-advertising-of-driving-automation-systems">investigate</a> Tesla for false and misleading advertising related to those semi-autonomous features. Along with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), they’ve also proposed the <a href="https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senators-markey-and-blumenthal-lead-reintroduction-of-four-auto-
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“These latest developments with Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self- Driving systems are exactly why we’ve long expressed our concerns with this flawed technology,” Blumenthal and Markey told Recode. “Although automated driving and driver assistance systems have the potential to enhance safety, they must be implemented with strong safeguards that will ensure our cars follow the rules of the road and drivers are fully engaged.”
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But the reason strong safeguards for semi-autonomous cars don’t exist is that there’s no consensus about how these vehicles should be regulated. Is the driver or the car manufacturer responsible when a software-assisted vehicle does something dangerous? Should autonomous and semi-autonomous cars be programmed to follow the letter of the law, or to drive the way most people actually drive? Regulators haven’t fully answered these questions, and Tesla is taking advantage of the ambiguity.
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This all comes at what should be a moment of opportunity for Tesla and its commitment to safety. In the first nine months of last year, the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-road-deaths-rise-record-pace-risky-driving-82600871">number of US road fatalities</a> rose at the fastest rate since the Transportation Department started tracking them in 1975. Musk has repeatedly argued that Tesla’s AI-powered vehicles save lives and that his vehicles could be a solution to worsening highway safety problems. But the company’s insistence on releasing features that deliberately play with safety, instead of promoting it, seems to be undermining this larger goal.
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The Beijing Winter Olympics kicked off to an expectedly weird start, thanks to the unprecedented challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic. Directed by legendary Chinese film director Zhang Yimou (who also directed the 2008 Beijing opening ceremony), this year’s opening ceremony focused on visual spectacle, with giant LED screens covering the floor and lining the stage, and no celebrity entertainers.
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The production, which dovetailed with the Chinese New Year spring festival, included about 3,000 performers, <a href="https://www.beijing2022.cn/wog.htm?cmsid=20220129006136">most of them teenagers</a>, and emphasized peace, world unity, and the people around the world who have battled the pandemic. The unifying aesthetic was about as peaceful as you could get: snowflakes.
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It’s in keeping with China’s <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55355401">messaging</a> since the pandemic began: We’re all in this together, getting through this together, thanks to the tireless commitment of “<a href="https://madeinchinajournal.com/2021/05/30/the-cultural-politics-of-national-tragedies-and-personal-
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That theme played heavily into the opening ceremonies, from the presence of seas of cute children smiling and singing onstage to a video featuring kids not much older than toddlers skiing and skating to the passing of the Olympic torch. For the cauldron lighting, Chinese athletes born in succeeding decades passed the torch along to one another, ending with two athletes born in the 2000s (one of whom embodied a message to the world, but more on that in a second).
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Throughout the parade of nations, happy volunteers jumped, danced, and waved alongside the competing Olympic athletes alongside a backdrop of utterly inoffensive European classical music. A bucolic snowflake aesthetic dominated the presentation, apparently emphasizing not the uniqueness of every snowflake, but the calm uniformity of the collective snowfall awaiting spring. Easy to imagine it all as a metaphor for the commonality of the global Olympics audience as we all await an end to Covid surges. At one point, roller skaters made idyllic snowflake patterns to the tune of John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
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Despite the banal quality of it all, the scene still held political tension. Viewers watching the NBC live feed of the ceremony got plenty of glimpses of Vladimir Putin, isolated in Russia’s box, attending the event despite being embroiled in <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/1/31/22910635/russia-ukraine-border-crisis-us-nato">a border standoff with Ukraine</a> that threatens to overshadow the Games and their focus on global unity.
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As Chinese President Xi Jinping looked on, in the final moments, the Olympic torch was passed to 21-year-old cross-country skier <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dini0503/?hl=en">Dinigeer Yilamujiang</a>, who is a member of China’s Uyghur ethnic minority. Human rights experts have accused the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of detaining millions of Uyghurs in <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/7/28/21333345/uighurs-china-internment-camps-forced-labor-xinjiang">forced human labor camps in Xinjiang</a>; the US State Department has <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/30/china-genocide-
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camps/a-59880898"> evidence</a> to the contrary, that the camps don’t exist, that workers’ labor is voluntary, and that accusations to the contrary are “<a href="https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202103/20/WS60554c0ea31024ad0bab0672.html">the lie of the century</a>.” So the decision to prominently feature Yilamujiang to end the opening ceremony is a deeply political one — and one that will significantly complicate the message of unity conveyed in the Olympics’ opening ceremony. (Yilamujiang isn’t the first Uyghur athlete to carry the torch for China; Kamaltürk Yalqun, who carried the torch at age 17 in the 2008 Olympics, now lives in the US and <a href="https://www.tenterfieldstar.com.au/story/7606769/uyghur-2008-torch-bearer-laments-china/">has spent years protesting</a> China’s persecution of the Uyghurs.)
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China also welcomed separate delegations from Taiwan (competing as the “Chinese Taipei” team) and Hong Kong, despite its <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/7/2/21309902/china-national-security-law-hong-kong-protests-us-sanctions">attempts</a> to bring those regions more tightly into its orbit and its emphasis on a <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/10/14575442/trump-accept-one-china">“One China” policy</a>. As Yale professor Jing Tsu explained during NBC’s coverage, these contradictions are somewhat inherent to China’s political strategy: The country doesn’t necessarily expect to change minds, globally, with its message — but still, it is a clear one: unity, the future, and peace on earth. “We’ll see if there are any takers,” Tsu said.
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Still, it’s always worth noting that China and its people are not a monolith, nor are they synonymous with the CCP and its human rights abuses — whatever the CCP might want you to think. While China’s Olympic delegation obviously got the biggest cheer of the night from the hometown crowd, the Beijing Olympics Committee stressed a warm welcome to all the participating nations, from the <a href="https://twitter.com/tacodesandwich/status/1489590470045052932">Mexican athletes</a> wearing Day of the Dead jackets to the solo <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/1489592871816728584">American Samoa delegate</a> who arrived shirtless, fully Vaselined, and ready to play.
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Perhaps the opening ceremony did remind us of one thing: No amount of strange precedence or geopolitical tensions can fully suppress the thrilling and unexpected pleasures of the Olympics, from the weird and wacky to the groundbreaking and heroic. Let the Games begin!
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Beijing Olympics | Xi to meet with leaders of Serbia, Egypt</strong> - Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic are among more than a dozen world leaders who attended the opening ceremony on Friday night</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Dead bodies of cattle found floating in River Ganga in U.P. city</strong> - 37 dead cattle were found floating at the confluence of river Kali and river Ganga, Kannauj DM said citing a report from the Chief Veterinary Officer</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A fight over the right to repair cars turns ugly</strong> - Massachusetts Subaru and Kia dealers disabled remote start and maintenance alerts. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1831825">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Orville: New Horizons jumps 400 years into the future in teaser footage</strong> - Originally slated for March, new season will now debut June 2 on its new home: Hulu. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1831893">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>CDC turns to poop surveillance for future COVID monitoring</strong> - Sewage can detect surges and variants before testing, CDC says. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1831967">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>“Deprioritized” Google Stadia to pivot to “Google Stream” white-label service</strong> - After a consumer failure, Google wants to salvage the Stadia technology. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1831743">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mozilla apparently makes and is discontinuing a VR version of Firefox</strong> - Wolvic browser, maintained by Igalia, picks up where Firefox Reality left off. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1831884">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>a teenage boy keeps depositing one million dollar in his bank account every day</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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“ok, do you bet on 3000$ that I’ll lick my ear ?”, she thoroughly examined his ears, and after getting sure they’re real she accepted, so the boy removed his fake tongue and licked his ear
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“fair enough, here’s your 5000<span class="math inline">$, now allow me to collect my money&quot;, and she was confused as all the employees at the bank were paying the boy </p> <p>&quot;what have you done this time&quot; she said </p> <p>&quot;oh, I bet each one of them 10 000$</span> that I’ll make you flash me your tits”
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